Space Purchase Agreement
You can create and execute an agreement in the Agreement screen. To navigate to this screen, click .
The Agreement screen contains various fields that need to be completed in order to create a record like AgreementRef, Period, Agent, Carrier, Onload, Offload, and Currency.
The Period field contains options such as Agreement, Day, Week, Month, Fortnight, Flight and Per Charter. If the Period field is set to Day, the DOW column is disabled for all types of agreements.
To execute an Agreement, you can navigate to the Details tab by clicking Details. The record can be executed for the current and past date. If the execute has been previously performed, you can do the operation again by clicking Repeat Run. Once the record has been committed, other options are disabled. A report contains a draft keyword prior to committing. After committing the record, the keyword is removed from the report.
There are four types of Agreements such as Equalization, Pivot Weight, Charter, and Block Space. You can select the Agreement Type in the Agreement Screen.
Equalization Agreement
Carriers allow forwarders to aggregate the weight of the AWB, pallet, or container during a spread of several days, ranging from 1 day to 1 month.
The mandatory fields that need to be completed are the following:
- Termination Date
- Effective Date
- Agreement Ref
- Agreement Type
- Currency
- Period
- Carrier/Carrier List
- Agent/Shipper/GSA
This Agreement can be created based on Period type and Agreement Type data.
Block Space Agreement
For this type of Agreement, the system compares the agreement’s Total Pivot weight against the Total Gross weight of all AWBs. Whichever value is higher, the system uses as the Total Sell weight for the agreement. This value is also charged to the customer. Once a Block Space Agreement is created, you cannot edit the Termination Date.
The mandatory fields that need to be completed are the following:
- Termination Date
- Effective Date
- Agreement Ref
- Agreement Type
- Currency
- Period
- Carrier/Carrier List
- Agent/Shipper/GSA
You can update the past dated record in the Detail tab, if the agreement has not been cancelled or executed. A modified record is marked with an identifier (*).
Pivot Weight Agreement
The Pivot weight is the Minimum Airline Chargeable weight per unit. The Airline and forwarder/agent/GSA need to agree on positions of an aircraft with minimum weight of each position with per Kg rate. The rate is applicable on Chargeable weight, either on Pivot weight or Gross weight, depending on the higher value.
Total Gross Weight is less than the sum of the Pivot Weights of all the ULDs utilized even with a higher Chargeable weight. A Sell weight value is computed for each air waybill and this value is used as the inflated Gross Weight to achieve the required Pivot weight.
The mandatory fields that need to be completed are the following:
- Termination Date
- Effective Date
- Agreement Ref
- Agreement Type
- Currency
- Period
- Carrier/Carrier List
- Agent/Shipper/GSA
Charter Agreement
This Agreement requires an execution period. The option of selection Per Charter is only applicable for this agreement type as Charter. This is used to re-price AWBs based on the agreed revenue per round trip, instead of taking an individual operation. The whole round trip is considered to re-price the AWB.
Charters with buy-back functionality is available for any change to a charter MDP, LDP, Payload, and Revenue. This can be accomplished by clicking Change.
Once a Charter Agreement is created, you cannot edit the Termination Date.
The mandatory fields that need to be completed are the following:
- Termination Date
- Effective Date
- Agreement Ref
- Agreement Type
- Currency
- Period
- Carrier/Carrier List
- Agent/Shipper/GSA
- Carrier
- Flight Number from the Grid
You can update the past dated record in the Detail tab, if the agreement has not been cancelled or executed. A modified record is marked with an identifier (*).